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...fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue virtually without contradiction. Of course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they dont even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality may be junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
Last May when Texans John and Clint Murchison Jr. (TIME cover, June 16) ousted Wall Street Millionaire Allan Kirby from control of Alleghany Corp., Kirby growled ominously: "The Murchison boys are way out on a limb." Last week Kirby. who still holds the biggest single block (33⅓%) of Alleghany'sl common stock, reached for his saw. In a letter to the SEC, Kirby protested the Murchisons' proposal to split and reclassify the stock of Minneapolis' Investors Diversified Services, a $4 billion mutual fund complex currently controlled by Alleghany. Kirby clearly feared that if the Murchisons were...
...resident of Cabot Hall recalling an incident that occurred there observed that the drills present constant danger to "life and limb." When the clarion tones of the alarm sounded, one unsuspecting 'Cliffle fell down the stairs. She was on cructhes for weeks thereafter. Another girl reacted quite differently. While shaving her legs, she cut an artery--all over the living room...
Discounting Wednesday's easy 5-0 defeat of Tufts as genuine proof of Crimson strength, Coach Bruce Munro is looking to the season's first Ivy League game to supply the answers. "After Cornell," he said, "I may be ready to climb way out on the end of a limb...
...flown a t least a half a million miles, but nothing like this ever happened to me before," Augusts Thorndike, Chief of Surgery in the U.H.S. said San Francisco, where he attended a meeting on the Veterans Administration's artificial limb program...